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.41V 'HISTORICAL RE , OV ?Hit CAMPAIGN OF 411,40 N A e-ART E IN ITALY, Val, MUM 170, , hba1. 1797: ;; - 77 ;,7 rt. INTRANCEt OP ,q - Siti INTO TH6 TYROL, AND ,!rl - 11 tit CIPITA:VIiAtETREAT (F' weßmsEtt, sARANDONI, RABS,ANV) Tlc'T/IROW wHitiSSLF iNTO 34 A,NII-7R (OZiTINUfft:/). then,.. kliatjhere was corruption, and say • it Confidently. - it was gold tluq.pollited the, arms of the AustriSitt. They were at first, so brave and so NreddObnible ! They heorne, at list,--so teeble and so cowardly ! No; this Will not natural ; and gold prods ced the strange nietatnorphose`: A tialat per medics ire satellites Et potrumpere Anat castra, paentras l ciu tulattneo. • I sly it after the rrench °Meets themselves. All -Italy recollects the language which was daily held by them. " The Louis of Fratice in the hands of BoONAPARTZ, are far more terrible than all his `1 have'nlyself, more than once, 'heard these words from their mouths, and have shuddered at them ; more than once, too, I have ventured to re ply do; it is not the Louis of Franca which have done all the mischief; it is rather the Ninety-six-livre Pieces 'of Genoa, the Doppie of Savoy, theSequine of Venice, and all the Coins of And, in laa, it was from the country itself where BUONAPARTE made war, that he derived all the gold which he subsequently poured into the hands of the traitors. He possessed, in such perfeetiOre,the lent of pillaging ; hewas such an adept in the art of draining public and private coffers; "end of drying up . all the channels of wealth that he had always at hand immense supplies, sufficient not only to enrich himself and his Generahe but to pay a great number of traitors in the enemy's army, and a still greater number of inhabitants of the country, pm fligate and desperate wretches, who became spies in their owredistrias, disturbers'of the public tran quility; and always ready to stir up insurrthions against the established Government. For the rest, if there' be yet.any one who doubts of the corruption which contributed so much to the disorganization of the Austrian 'Army, I have it in my power to produce an unquestionable WI, which cannot be read without horror. I took some pains myself to procure the proof of it; and this proof is the solemn testimony of one of the Chaplains of our • Army, who had given all the assistance and all the consolations of religion to an Austrian Soldier, on his death-bed, in our hospital. This seldier had been wounded in the Village of lidarostica, , betwaeo Ilassauo and Vicenza ; and amortgatt , eraaU emus lions, had lost hiS right arm by the stroke of a Sable.: He was brought to the Hospital of Vicetiza,'. where, he died,: but some hours before his death, he was asked by the Chap , lain, whorwas• administering the lest Sacrament to him, how' he lose arm, "My fiither," replied . the poor youth, bUrstiedinto tears," if the ,bloW had come from an enemy, I should 'have' been 6n-itoiled, do chance of 'war,—but it was my own. a 1 . cer that cot it elf, aims the thought of it is horrible to me. I waive soldier in the artillery, ond to protrad the retreat of our troops, we had planted six field; pieces itt arr adVantigeous' situation. •The eue r hy calm) . , on at a quick pace. When he Wil a within cannon-shot, I informed the officer of it ; that he might give .the word ito fire. He ordered mu to wait ; 1 did watt but the enemy alMost touching , our battery; and' now being on the very point of seizing it, I tired one of the guns; and that mo tilettt_a blow of a.sabre separated my arm from my 1)64! Lturned roinid to see who had given it ; 'and I found that it was my own officer, whose sabre was yviVt b 141: this officer: was a Ma jor of tio :must have. been captured,. •With all mycomrailes; eice,pt the two wlto'brought . . trie here Why 'is' it not in my poWer to perpetuate the, name of this'assassin of an officer, more culpable than the wretch who bought hino. ,• I have dwelt the longer cm this fa& to prove how pure, ho%,i, unsullied . 'is the glorlor this great man, who 'repeats fromhour to hour—i , It is by the might of my' power that I have done these things, gmd by the sublimity of my talents r No 7 , it Is net '' by the might of his rower" that he has gained so many battles; it is by dark and disgraceint r mef,m4 and all' his matness is founded' upon, the haseuess of others. • This is admitted, even by his historian, since he attributes thegreatest part of his success to what he „ , ca w tbe,,drtn,s ofrocamaiions; arms," says he, 0 which BUONAPARTE wields with'o•dt:Sterity pis culiar to himself." We hava leen that litioNAPattais bad already is , sued one proclamation to the TyroleJe; this, how ever had - totaor fatted: Hu ,thought it, necessary, thei-efo*„ tO - tratrie another, and tiiii.4Vis very ditie ,., rent from the former. The first Was modest, 'and .conflagration ! .death; and imprisontnent of rela'fietts to the third and fourth' degree ?,.and will no donbt be astonished when we inform them, that these Ty rolians were soldiers who' defended their country against a foreign aggression. They were in the act' of fulfilling 'a twofold- duty, , that of combating fOr their Sovereign, and that. which was imposed on them by the particular Constitution of the Tyrol, which ordained that they Should rise in a body,when they were threatened by r a hostile invasion. These men merited, rewards instead of chastisements, and an enemy really generous would have much sooner admired than punished them. ',erns confess our obligations, however, to 800- MAPARTE for confining himielf to inflifling his bar barous vengeance on those soldiers who wished to fight for their Prince and their country—he who ,proceeded to the-exeesa of compelling, by unheard of cruelties,,iie immediate subjeas of the Emperor, to bear arms against their master ! It is not a fasle which we have just recounted ; "It is an incontestible fait, and known to thousands. BUONAPARTE had scarcely taken possession of the, Milanese, before he dragged the peasants from their ploughs, the manufaCturers from their shops, and forced them to march at the head of his columns against the Imperial troops. And what• means did he employ to make them advance? he planted can non in their rear, with orders to . fire on them if they attempted to 'fly, or refused to proceed ! These if.. fortunate Men.were then sure to be destroyed, either 'by the shot Of their friends, -or by those of their enemies; and this fah is not taken from the life of NERO or CALIGULA, but from that of BUONA2ARTE. T, htcontlnunA) LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCH, Arsii. 24. TIM city OF LONDON V, TEIE LONDON DOCK CODE. PANY. This_ was an a6lion to eidertaln the tight of gaug ing all wines, oil, and other gaugeable matters in the London Docks. The City of London claim that right exclusively to themselves, by virtue of a.Char ter granted to them in the 18th year of the reign 'of Edward. IV. w hich charter the London Dock Come patty insist was confined to the City of London,- and not co-extensive with the scite on which the Lon don Docks are built. The emoluments derived front the exercise Of the right Contended for, amount at the present . time to 70,0001. annually. When the charter was granted they did not exceed 70001. The ATTOR N EY-GE NEB AL,WlloooMiLlathl thecause for the City of London (assisted by Mr. Garrow, the Recorder, Common Serjeant, -and Messrs. DaMpier and Watson) addresied the Jury at considerable length.- He admitted that the Charter granted the right of gauging all, gaugeable matters ,to the Cop. put . .ttiot) of London within their City, but he would contend that the words " infra . tivitatem," had re ference to the City and its Liberties, and that the right was not confined within :he walls of the City. As a proof of that falai the ,Lord Mayor, who was the City dauger, was obliged to render an account; upon oath, into the Exchequer, and the form of that oath was fora moiety of all forfeitures accruing in the gauging of wine, oil, and other gaugeable mat— 'ters within the City of Londbn and Liberties there of. If that point 'was establiShetV'the hest ques tion would Ve, whether the London.. Docks were situated within the Liberties - of the City of London ; and that they were, he said, could be:proved by in ndmerable witnesses. Indeed, the conservancy of the River Thames, the right of metage, and the boundaries of the Port of London, were. all Liberties of the City, and extended over, :and much beyond the place in question. But he should:also show That the right contended for had . been uniformlyexer cised for upwards 01300 years, on. both aides of the River, from Blackwall upwards, and that 'the law and prat!..tice were in his tavour. . • .;! The documentary evidence was, then read, and 'a host of witnesses were called to prove that the City Ganger had . tinifiirmly exercised his right on' both sides the •RiverThatnes as low as Blackwall, and near and about the apt in question, for time . .lnk, memorial. • The defence was condu&ed by Mr. Serjeant assisted: by MessiPot lc, HoLao Y TY, and Baur:atm'. The Learned Serjeant in addressing the. Jury, said'. he had little difficulty to contend against, and, that it was a mere questimi as td'the constru&ion of the Charter, that their Lordships and the Jury had to decide., The , right given Ad i the City was, 'to guage all wine, oil, Sze. within, the City, and if ,the words of the Charter Conld be construed as ex tending to the .city and . its liberties, Iturelyit must bu those defined liberties of space without the - Bars, and not a wandering from one extremity of the River Thamea f to the Other.. As the trade and com merce of the country increased,' and the quays and wlusrls within the City of London became too small for the accommodation , cif the 'Public,_ other quays and wharfs, were. ereeed on the banks of the .Tuatnes without the City a nnd;for convenience take. the City Gauger 'had been employed -by the mer chant, not in virtue of the City's right, but at the option of .the party. In short, the London Docks were not within the defined liberties of the City of London,: and, the Company had a right to' empky their own Gauger, 'without, the least deference to the City's Charter. Lord ELIANBOItOt7GII ~a greed that it wfiB a ques tion as to the construetion of the words ot the Chatter, and. he was, of opinion they did not bear the meaning put upon them by the Plaintiffs, or that the right was eo-exteubive with the London Docks. . The - Jury'found a verdia'for the Defendants, and City of London lost the ri&ht contended for. -41 There, were upwards of witnesses in attend ance, and the. Court was extremely crowded. A. p. 17. 5 i Ship s i l a t st M itt 4 r k". s°ld. . . etML , MARK LT. • sty ;A . 445 gli 45' 63 0 4 c, Sunderland 45 at 4is pd 47; I Stone Gnat I at b9s t A 40 6J 1 9. 46 Newc4gie 2, , i at 4S S ‘":' -,,'.. 04 / •Sanderland 4 at 44g 9" ff,.' . 0 4 t Cinders I at 41$ tnti -e. 47+ fl it. 21. li N 4 vicaltla 17 AC 431 v d 6Ss 04; 3 2f 4 Sunuertlud • at .-s b.l .......................-0,„ )lt on-street. Grosver.o7..ipt re f ails& be addrebied, LONDON: Printed by Ric iIIARD HA RR is, of No, 4 , nAlartlett-coutty BuW-StrCet . ; and Published by WILLIAM ARM IG.EIt SC al PS, Smith MI At the busiOrma, No. ,i!J, Strand whew Alvertisemetik, Ordol for the Paper, Letters- fur tbu Editor, &c, (past-putia), r loveli all : people, especially the simple and "virtuous inhabitapts ,of the - mountains'." The, second is haughty, menacing, and full . of rancour. He. had; at first, taken ths, sheep's-skin; ,now he is about to resume : the Akin ,of the tiger, , and to appear in, his true shape. • . . " You solicit the proteltion of the French Army ; render yourselves worthy of it." The Tyrolese never sacked the prote6lion of the French Army. They knew. too well w hat this pro /et-hum meant. They had been , informed by the Italians, what seas of blood and tears it had cost them s and they were infinitely more inclined to re jeet it than to "-render themselves worthy of it." " Since ' tho majority of you is well,disposed, compel the handful of heal-strong people to submit.n It is proper to explain what BOONAPARTIS means, by well-disposed and headstrong. The, well-disposed • were those who were inclined to rise, in, his favour, 'against their Legitimate. Sovereign. He says they were the majority; and in this ,he lies. The head strong were those who, full of honour and full of love for their country, had taken arms to defend it. He says they were few in number•; and in this he lies again.! For these head,strong,peciple .compri 'zed all theTyroles . e youth, wbo had risen in a body, a numerous and formidable youth, who in despite of all the menaces of BUONAPARTR, continued to de fend themselves with intrepidity, and even cut to Titus a French column of twenty-five thousand men, commanded by General JounEaw. React the rest of &lie Proclareation : the whole is cut ions. " - You fish for puce; the French tight for it." It was then the love of peace which brou&ht the French into Italy, where they had neither been in vited, nor provoked.by, any at 'of hostility;. and where they themselves exercised, every ; species' (if hostility, even towards their: friends and No, no ; it was not the love . of peace whiCh led BUONA PARTE into this tranquil and happy country ; if it was not the thirst of blood, it was, at least,. the love of booty, and he continued to give proofs of it from the commencement to the conclusion of the campaign. No invasion of the Gauls, from'the time of the Romans, was ever marked by a more out , rageous and insatiable cupidity of riches and plurrder, " -We do not come here to aggrandiie ourselveo. On whom did be expel to iinpose ? vvto dM not see, from the-first, that the French entered Italy, not only as robberS, but as cOnquerors ; and that Buo- NAPARTE himself began with laying the foundation of that Cisalpine republic, formed by the spoils of the Emperor, the Pepe, and the States of Venice, which is since become a 'kingdom in his hands; and of which he now calls himself the master ? BUOyA* rAnTit, in saying that he wished not to aggrandize himself, is just as sincere as the "first authors of the Revolution, -who declared to the world that they would never make conquests, and inunediatelyiu i'aded a great Tao of Europe 4 ' Nature has fir:ea our limit's tothe Rhine and the Ajps." So in 1796 ; LitiONAPARTS, then a repubikan General ! : But BUONAPARTE, become First Consul, held a very different language: he seized on Pied mont, and several other States of Italy, and he an nounced'pretensions which filled &trope with : ter ror and dismay. But even these pretensions pert) nothing to those of IitJOICIPARTE beccinie Emperor ! He overturns thrones at pleasure; or he ereds them :' he removes all limits; he contrasts or ex tends them from Caprice : he ,has already placed crowns on the heads of five Qr six of his vagrant race : from Petersbargh to Naples, rio l Sovereign exists but by his permission; and who can:Pretend to say how wide the confusion which lie prdposei to introduce may yet extend ! He nolonger wishes for - France the limits fixed' by nature ; lie will not even hear of limits for Europe, or for any of its cot:wane:A States!: kis no longer simple ambition ; it is a fury, a rage of subversion ; it is a real ratti ness, which will 'extend itself over the globe, unless the Almighty shall be speedily pleased to mark the plice where his proud frenzy shall bp stayed t • " It is trot a few ettt:llllCS more which the conquerors of the Alps and of Italy can possibly fear t it is is few victims less, which my generosity bids me seek to spare.o Never eras the word generosity worse applied - Generosity towards our enemies consists in treating them kindly when in our poWer, and in softening for them, as winch a$ possible, the severe rights of. war. Bat thin not at all the generosity of RIIONA rAratt towards. the Tyrolese. Read the following paragraph of hi, Proclamation, and you will 'see 'that, so lar front . there being any genero,ity' in his condua, there is not even common humanity. All the towns,' to which the Tyrolian Companies Shall not be returned a; dor arrival, shall be atm N r, and the inha. bitants seized .and ,scnt- to Friuice. The Syndics shall lin- Meiliately give in a list of theist of ;he ialiabitants who aro in the E'mperor's pay, and if they make a part of the Tyrolian 'Companies, their HOUSES SHALL Itz INSTANTLY BURNT, PARLNTSANIS RSLATIONS TO TH& Tlilan GA UNKATtON, tHROWN LNTr7 r Je3 soN !", " Every Tyruhan of the f ret- Companies, taken with arms in his hand, shall be PUT TO iaLA tH on tilC, :Tot ." s _ Our Readers wilt ask, perhaps, what was the crime, of atoms Companies of ,Tyro Hans against whom BUONAPARTS takes such batbaritnlailtreCaUliOna, and .288 . different' idea- of happiness. There Intl: doubt that many,' at the present era, wonld return. • .hitn 28,7 of his reasons, provided they"but• even par. •tieipate of eithttr of the Capital Prizes, ivki - cti still enrich the LOttety Wheel, though' Tinirsilay and • Saturday next will complete the entire Dri4 , ing. The Wheel ,goescround on Thursday -next.—" HORNSBY and Co. hope to•supply their friends with .3.20,0001. 5,0001. 1,0001. 5001. Ere. Tickets and . Shares are - selling, warranted •undrawn, at their old established State tottery Offices, 26, Cornhill,' and 'St. Margaret's Hill, Borough, and no where else on their account in London. • SHIP NEII4. GRAVESEND, APRIL 2/, Passed by-the Grinder, Collings, front St. - Michael's; Friendship, Williams, from Hayti ,• John, Uevans, front lamaica; Money, Bra dy, from Gibratar ;. William, Hol man, from Cork; Alert, Chain, and the Good Friends; Trower, from Gottenburgh. Sailed—the Susannah Estill, for Dominica ; and the Mary Anu, Davis, for Londonderry. BIRTHS. On Thursday last, the. wife ot. Mr. Kay, of ,Bedpcd,gieet , of a Son. On the 21St inst. at BriCitißOlth-HAI, Northamptonshire, the Lady of Wallis Strickland, kiq. of A Son. MARRIED. • On friday last, at Stowe Church; in the City of Litch-field, the Rev. John Constable, on)y son of IVil4l4rit Co.n. stable, Esq. of Burwash, to Fiances, yOUJIgat daughter uE the late Rev. Dr. Dodson, of Huratperyint, in the Count! of Sussex. DThD. On Sunday tit:" 16th inst. after a short illness, deeply i . merited, Mrs. John Smith; wile of Film Smith, Esq. for Nottingham. On Thursday evening, tho, evil inst. after a long and pais *flit illneis, aged st, Mr. William rigratn, sea. Litien.dui.. , 'tr. • Oh Saturday last, at Edmonton, Mary Ann F i lizabellis The l on!) , daughter ot Mr. I. P. Hillary. , •On Sunday night, at his house a t Paddington Given. the Right Hon. Charles Itran..::s G teville, 'Second brother to del Lad of:Warwick. • • Yesterday, Mrs. Harriet Howard, of Sr. itunet'fiplac'el widow of %Valiant Augustus libiyatit, mul eldest daughter of the hue Pines Cecil, Laq. of • Nartotk Street, Strand. PRICE Ut vt.sTL I'OC'XS n A.V. India Stock, India Bonds, 1;s. 14S. pt. South Sea Stook, 01(1 Ann. Exclicq. Bills, 128. /41. Pr. C)imium, .Cons. los nth May, EV !ft !tank Steck, Nary t per Cent. 98i 98 I 5 per Cent. 1797, Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per CenF. 81 3 f;er Cent. iced. 66 i 4 a 3 pet Cent. COOS. 67 3 I I !Link 1.. Ann. 18 3- itnn4 LONDON MARKETS. kc. . RETURN OF WHEAT IN MARK.LANE, By arlessn.. C ii,l SA) and MA 1.5. A s, Meal Wei hare. intiudilig only from loth 01 April to the istlt of Apots , agreeably to the Ad. ~ Ss Quarters at loos ad 54 2 Quarters- at gos ad 21 -7--- - at 99$ 64 . los -- At os od 233 --- at 9SS od 47i 559' ----- at gla od I 209 4. So -----. at 96$ od sto 25 4 ---- at 9is 6,1 I 371 90 --- at 9.0 t 4 1 7: --...... 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